Although I was under the impression that there’d be metal and orgies!
UK Atheist
p.s. I’m a married man so, maybe not that last one!
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I’ve been saying that for years now. If someone asks me who/what I worship, I tell them I’m a non-theistic Satanist/Atheist.
I’ve also been a member of TST for years.
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Hi! Not that I’m a satantist but I saw the satanist website advertised in a room I do my chatting in.
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My Irish heritage keeps yapping at me to believe in the little people. Other than that I got nothing for the nothings that are nothing.
I have no idea what any of that meant but hey ho.
UK Atheist
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That’s because Satanism was really only created to trigger Christians.
If you create a religion based on a character you don’t believe in, that exists in someone else’s religion, then you’re basically trolling them. Am I mad at it? No. But the thing about atheism that is good is that it is not a reaction to theism. When you turn it into a reaction you lose credibility to theists. You trigger them, sure. But mainly trigger them in a way that reinforces their own beliefs because they take your “satanism” literally. They need that whole satanic thing to be true so why help them by using their terminology? That’s why I don’t like it.
As far as orgies go, I’m down for it. But again… triggering Christians who think we don’t have any morals by then attaching “Satan” to orgies just helps them way too much. And it’s hard to make any case of what morality should be when attaching questionable terms to questionable behavior. They are often like children so they can’t figure out that sex can be done in a good way outside of baby-making marriages.
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Short answer, believers’ hallucinations make little impact on reality. Despite my ancestral inclinations I don’t believe in such.
Perhaps they make little impact on reality but they make huge impacts on lives…both the believers’ lives and the non-believers’.
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I did not say otherwise.
I agree, the whole satanic thing just seems like indulging superstition to me. Though I can see why in the US people do it to fight Christians who are eroding 1st amendment rights to pursue a theocracy.
I think this is true here in the UK as well, but nowhere as much or as often in the US it seems to me. One can live here as an atheist without any real problems, and we have a state religion after all, ironically.
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I hear the Labour Party plans to protect scriptural books (and presumably religions) from various things, criticism, burning and so on, something I’m dismayed at as I tend towards the left philosophically. If true, I have to wonder where it’ll stop, whether my own website (which certainly criticises religion) might be used against me so maybe if I can respond along the lines of having a religion of my own (granted a near meaningless one) then why not?
UK Atheist
I find all intrusions into freedom of speech a little worrying, as I think it might be better to know who the hate filled bigots are, and it’s easier to challenge those ideas in the open. And like you, I worry how far such legislation might go, and don’t believe any ideas should ever be ringfenced from criticism.
FWIW religions and the religious have far more to fear from other religions and the adherents of other religions, than from secularism or atheism per se.
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The original intent of the Satanic Bible was to mock religion, not create or promote religions.
Hi guys. It seems relevant to this thread that Satanic imagery is being attacked and/or destroyed.
See below:
Redneckistan is like that.
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I don’t hold a belief in any God or gods, so I cannot believe in Satan since he is a creation of God or Brahman.
That said, the Seven Fundamental Tenets of the Satanic Temple strike this humanist as preferable to the current iteration of The Humanist Manifesto.
THERE ARE SEVEN FUNDAMENTAL TENETS - TST via @satanic_temple_
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The Satanic Temple was created to mock mainstream religions.
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I don’t think that’s correct. It was, as I’ve read, started in response to xtian groups working to erode and ultimately eliminate the separation between religion and government in the U.S.
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Not how I heard it. LaVey stated so, I read that a good few year ago.